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August 2018 The averaging period used for the following assessment was 1981-2010. The first week of August continued the warm and settled theme of the previous couple of months, especially in southern areas, but a er that conditions were more unsettled and closer to the climatological average

shift in our weather. Matthew Lehnert is an Expert Operational Meteorologist with the Met Office. He said: “Although the prolonged cold spell and snow events in February and March of 2018 – dubbed the ‘Beast from the East’ by the UK media – were linked to a sudden stratospheric warming, the record warm

Alex. Further rain in the weekend By Saturday, further wet weather is likely, with some thundery showers likely for much of the country. Alex explained what’s behind the wetter theme. He said, “The jet stream is driving an area of low pressure that’s heading towards us. It’s not an especially deep

is the Met Office’s Chief Information Officer, charged with keeping the organisation’s technology at the cutting edge, and he has overseen the project to shift computing to the cloud.   “We use a technique to predict the future state of the atmosphere called numerical weather prediction,” he said. “So

it was not as warm as the March 2012 or 2017. Both mean maximum and mean minimum temperatures were between 0.5 and 2.0 °C above average with the largest positive anomalies generally in the east and southeast. It was the 5th wettest March in a series from 1910 with 140% of average rainfall

in 2015 and 2016 broke records and passed 1 °C above pre-industrial levels. Data from the Met Office shows that the long-term rate of global warming has now returned to the level seen in the second half of the 20th century.” Although there has been scientific debate about the exact framing of the so

With just a few days left to go, 2020 looks likely to be the 3rd or 4th warmest on record depending on how cold the rest of the year turns out to be (full years statistics published 4th January 2021). This makes it clear that the general trend of warming as a consequence of climate change is being

this week and it is important people plan for the heat. Temperatures are expected to peak at 35C on Friday and possibly 36C over the weekend. “We will also see increasingly warm nights, with temperatures expected not to drop below the low 20s Celsius for some places in the south.”  “Temperatures

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in 2024 which recorded 1.55°C above the pre-industrial average (1850-1900). The observational series of global average temperature records extends back to 1850. Professor Adam Scaife leads the team behind the Met Office’s global forecast for 2026. He said: “The last three years are all likely